An interesting chase scenario setting up for Sunday in terms of how I'm going to have to plan this trip. I wide range of targets from I-70 south to I-40 from I-25 out to I-35. Pending on where I refine my target to be, I'll be making quite the haul on very little sleep for Sunday's potential episode.
Tomorrow, my day begins at 6:45am where I'll get up and head to work on campus from 7:30a til 4p. Directly from here, I'll shoot south and drive pizzas from 5:00p til about 12:30a where I'll get off. From there, pending my target, I'll do one of the two things; head home for a quick nap and leave the apartment to head out between 3a and 5a or leave straight from work much like I did on
April 10 and drive a couple hours before crashing out in the car. Targets south of the KS/OK border and/or east of US Highway 283 would require one of the above. Targets closer to home would allow me about 6 hours of sleep to chase on. The good news is that I don't have to be back again til Thursday morning, so I'll have the luxury of crashing overnight in the Plains and perhaps the chance to sleep in a bit.
Monday I'm keeping an eye on just in case as I'll obviously already be out and time would allow for a more eastern chase. Arlene would be coming into play as well and could affect chasing plans as she makes landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast. If her organization were to remain about the same, most of the rain and stuff associated with her would be east of the system, possibly wrapping around the north side. If she shifts more westward, I could see effects directly from her; otherwise she'll just come into play for later forecasts.
Yesterday was a great day for chasers as I've seen
the reports on Stormtrack and have weeped silently to myself for missing what has undoubtly been the best day thus far of 2005. I'm hoping Sunday can repeat this, or at the very least, treat me to something good where I can forget about the frustrations of May. My congrats to all who bagged yesterday, including parts of our Colorado gang who represented the Rocky Mountain state yesterday in the field! Looking forward to seeing
Verne Carlson's report.
Anywoo, off to do some work work before doing some chase work. I've got some serious planning to do before Sunday's venture. The ups and downs to working all day Saturday. The good part is that I get to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours starting at 7:30a, which means I can look at things all day. The bad news is that once I leave at 4p, that'll be the last real chance I get to look at anything, so unless I see something different in a quick Sunday morning peek, I'm gonna have to take a real guess! :op
